Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.